Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today.

You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

“This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

“The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’

Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her.

Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

When David was close to death, he told Solomon his son:

David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.

O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds.

As for me, I cry out to you, O Lord; in the morning my prayer confronts you.

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.